When my wife and I purchased our home, it came with a plain white birdbath (and several gnomes) in the backyard. Like any good tiki lover, the gnomes were quickly shown the door and replaced with tiki torches and bamboo, but the birdbath has somehow managed to persist.
Not any more! Lowes stores have this tiki [...]
Illustrator Andrew Kolb hails from Canada, but he sure seems to understand tiki! The artist has two very nice tiki-themed wallpapers for iPhone and iPad available for free download at mobile device art site Poolga. Versions are available for both regular and retina-display devices.
See the Tiki Time wallpapers at Poolga.com
More tiki iPhone stuff on Ebay:
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[ July 6, 2012 to July 21, 2012. ]
Dayton, Ohio will play host to some of the top names in the Tiki art world at “Call of the Tropics,” a two-week festival of Tiki art, music and Mid-Century culture on July 6-21 at the Color of Energy Gallery in the city’s historic Oregon Arts District.
The Tiki art show features works by nationally known [...]
Today is the anniversary of the release of the movie that changed a lot of our lives, Star Wars. Putting aside all of the “May the 4th Be With You” nonsense, it’s a good excuse nevertheless to showcase this nicely done primitive take on R2D2 by artist Adriaan Mol on display in Orlando.
Read Tiki R2D2 [...]
Now this is embarrassing: this weekend my 11-year old son asked me if I knew about Double Trouble, a character in the super-popular Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure game who is a tiki. I didn’t. Needless to say, off we were to Google.
Skylanders is a video game for Wii, XBox, Playstation 3, Nintendo DS, Windows and Mac [...]
I really dig this t-shirt from Sourpuss Clothing, designed by artist Kirsten Easthope. Entitled “Tiki Time,” the cotton, v-neck, short-sleeve shirt features a hula girl surrounded by a tiki and plumeria. Sizes from S-XXL are available.
$26.00
Shop for TIKI TIME VNECK TEE at Sourpussclothing.com
Kirsten came to fame as an artist painting pin-up girls on bowling pins. [...]
Hi Octane Jewelry creates hand-made sterling silver jewelry in their studio in Southern California with hot rod, motorcycle, and tiki culture themes.
Brad & Alicia Johnson have eight different rings in their product line, including Pomaika’i, shown here. Rings are made custom to any size. Prices vary by design, from $95-$195.
Shop for Tiki Rings at [...]